Liz Broadway Brown co-chairs Alston & Bird’s Health Care Litigation Practice Team and has significant experience defending Fortune 500 companies in multiple industries in complex and high-profile litigation nationwide. Her practice focuses on class action defense, multidistrict litigation, and complex commercial disputes, with particular depth in health care, pharmaceutical, and consumer product litigation.

Liz has represented clients before federal and state trial and appellate courts and arbitration panels across the country in cases involving health care, privacy, ERISA, antitrust, RICO, and numerous state consumer protection and deceptive trade practices act claims. She has achieved significant victories for clients, including defeating class certification in multiple putative nationwide class actions involving ERISA, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and RICO claims. Liz is also a member of the firm’s Class Action & MDL Practice Team and The Best Lawyers in America® recognizes her as a leading class action and commercial litigation attorney.

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